00929 - Modern History

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student knows the fundamental characteristics of the political-institutional and socio-economic history of the XVI, XVII, and XVIII centuries and has applied it in a critical manner to the methodology and the fundamental evolution of modern history.It is able to recognize the evolution of certain phenomena and events, from which long-term structures they derive, how and why they disappear and in what form they recur during the modern age.

Course contents

the political theology inside the russian and ottoman empire in the xviii century is linked to the proccess of grwoning of the cultural role of the western culture

the indigenous cultural leadership, like in Russia especially Sergei Semenovic Uvarov, open them the roots for a reinvention of the Past as instrument of new kinds of the Power

Readings/Bibliography

Attending students must study two volumes of their choice from the ones indicated below

B. Uspenskij, Storia e semiotica, Bompiani, 1988; B. Uspenskij, Tipologia delle culture, Bompiani, 1987; Ju. Lotman, Da Rousseau a Tolstoj, Il Mulino, 1998; F. Martelli, Imperi d'Oriente tra Illuminismo e riforme (1760-1840). Faint-Priest, D'Ohsson, Uvarov e le nuove teologie politiche, libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni, in corso di stampa;  Shrines of the Holy land contested by the Russian and the Turk, Longman, 1854; S. Uvarov, Nonnos von Panopolis Der Dichter, Pluchart, 1817; F. Martelli La russsia degli zar, libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni 2018; Id., Derzhava, Aracne editore 2020; Id., Il periodo dei Torbidi e l'auto identità russa, Roma Edizioni Nuova Cultura ( in corso di stampa )

Non-attending students must study 3 volumes chosen from those listed

Teaching methods

teacher's lessons

Assessment methods

 

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

the students can choice the oral or writ proof

Teaching tools

Studenti/esse con DSA o disabilità temporanee o permanenti: si raccomanda di contattare per tempo l’ufficio di Ateneo responsabile (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it/per-studenti ). Sarà sua cura proporre agli/lle studenti/esse interessati/e eventuali adattamenti, che dovranno comunque essere sottoposti, con un anticipo di 15 giorni rispetto alla data dell'esame, all’approvazione del/della docente, che ne valuterà l'opportunità anche in relazione agli obiettivi formativi dell’insegnamento.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Martelli